<p>the people who you hang around with the most now</p>
<p>Like two weeks. I accidentally found them when I went to the dining hall before it opened on Sunday.</p>
<p>I'm currently a junior, met my two roommates first day freshman year in our first class. We made plans for lunch that day and have pretty much been inseparable ever since. Most of my other friends were either also in most of my classes (small major), on my dorm floor, people I work with (started end of freshman year), or people I work with at my other job (started beginning of soph year). Some people I've met randomly have also turned out to be really good friends, not super tight but cool to hang out with every once in a while.</p>
<p>I'm still trying to get new friends from college. Most of my buddies are still high school ones. I guess living at home and commuting each day doesn't help.</p>
<p>How could Cards4Life have posted at 12-30-2008, 04:17 AM when it's only Dec. 29 1PM here... ???</p>
<p>The first week or so. Nobody knew anybody, so we were all very open to meeting new people. It was really easy just to grab your lunch tray and sit with some random gals at a table.</p>
<p>I'm convinced that "things happen naturally". I met my closest (college) friends whilst at the beginning-of-the-year welcome party. We all kept bumping into each other during and after the party, and within a week we were a solid group (texting a lot and organizing dinners, etc. helped in the beginning).</p>
<p>i see..i hope I can find some people to chill with quick when i go to college</p>
<p>I have met alot of my friends throughout college. There are some people I just met a couple months ago that I hang out with all the time now (I am a senior) and there are people I have known since freshman or sophomore years too. There are also people I was BFF with for a while one year that I don't even speak to anymore. My social circle has kind of expanded through people who know people I know, ie friends of friends. I met several of my good friends freshman year second semester, and I've met many people through them as well as through other means, such as work, organizations, classes/major, etc.</p>
<p>I met my best friend during orientation, another good friend during an early start program, and my other two best friends are my roommate and my best friend's roommate, and including my roommate, naturally, all of these people live on my floor. That is, I had some opportunity to bond with them due to individual circumstances and they all live right near me, reinforcing our friendships. I met three of these before classes even started, and the last, my best friend's roommate, I met when she moved into our building a couple months into the school year.</p>
<p>I met one of my really good guy friends the very first day during orientation- we don't hang out a ton but he's the first one I talk to if I have a problem or something exciting happened to me.
I met most of my other close friends the first week. We were drunk in the quad, haha. People keep attaching and detaching from the pod, as I call it, but the eight of us have been friends since the first week.</p>
<p>In terms of college, met closest friends 3/4 - 1 year in. (end of freshman, beginning of sophmore).</p>
<p>My roommate/ orientation friends in the very beginning turned out to be freaks and weirdos that I hung around out of mere convenience.</p>
<p>In other words, if you're a freshman, you got time, relax.</p>
<p>the first couple days.
i feel so thankful that the coolest kids i've met at school all live on my floor, and the floor above me. it's a group of 10 of us (5 guys, 5 girls) and we're all really close and i like to believe we'll stay close throughout the next four years. a couple of us met up today and it was really nice seeing my friends outside of a school setting :)</p>
<p>Met mine right away, swim team friends. And I'm good friends with those who lived on my floor last year. I met my fraternity brothers second semester. My social circle is constantly expanding though, even at our small school (1700 kids).</p>
<p>The first couple days. My roommate and her best friend from high school and me were friends from the start and then early on I unintentionally crashed a floor having dinner (and ended up friends with half the floor). We bumped into each other again at one of those college welcome events and ended up at a party. Started texting and eating meals together and playing rock band etc and voila, good friends. After 2 months of hanging out with the same 8 people there was a gradual-drifting-apart of sorts but 6 out of the 9 of us are still great friends, and then we expanded to pick up another group of 5 friends (from the same floor) and will hopefully continue to be friends in the years coming.</p>
<p>I met most of my good friends in the first month of school. One set was my hall mates from freshman year. I didn't really hang out with them too much till October and didn't really get close to them till second semester, but we all met the first day of orientation. My hall then had a "sister hall" where we had a lot of friends who we still hang out with a lot. I made another group of friends that I met somewhat randomly. Five of us started hanging out at this one orientation event. After that people started adding and subtracting from our group until about November freshman year when we became ~10 good friends. The group has started to fragment and stuff because we don't spend as much time with eachother and the girls created their own drama, but it was fun while it lasted. I'm now half way through sophomore year now and have seen huge fluctuations in the people I hang out with. I've made new friends from class, clubs, and random happenings. While my social circle expands and contracts randomly, I'll hopefully have my two core groups upon graduation.</p>
<p>I haven't found really any close friends yet... I have friends here and there but not typically as part of a "group"</p>
<p>I haven't might any really close friends yet too :( Any advice on how to get close friends during one's freshman year at college? I'm very shy and it's hard for me to open up to people.</p>
<p>^work on being less shy and open up to people. it's really random how one becomes close friends with someone else. it sort of just happens. try to hang out with the people you live with and/or people in your classes. i've noticed (though i don't condone it) is that drinking helps you bond and open up with people. i've become closer to my college friends after we got drunk and had crazy adventures/talked about ****. just loosen up and have fun with it. you'll make friends.</p>
<p>About two weeks. I was at dinner with a big group of kids from my dorm, and I happened to be sitting near two people I'd never talked to before, and we ended up having a lot in common.</p>